How many Dune books will this cost me?

In this episode:

• Microsoft Buys Scandal-Tainted Activision in Bet on Metaverse
  • $68.7 billion
  
  
• Walmart is quietly preparing to enter the metaverse
• Twitter brings NFTs to the timeline as hexagon-shaped profile pictures
  • Major Twitter NFT implementation problem.
  
  
• An NFT restaurant opening in New York will serve up status with a side of seafood
• Is Tumblr on the road back to relevance?
• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he’ll work remotely and stay in a new rental every 2 weeks
  • Twitter thread from CEO
  
  
• Instagram launches early test of creator subscriptions in the US
• Locket, the #1 app in Apple’s App Store, uses a trick hiding in plain sight

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• Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying for Workspace this year
• Manslaughter charges follow Tesla driver’s Autopilot red light run
• Airlines Cancel Some Flights Ahead of U.S. 5G Wireless Launch
• Winnebago will reveal an electric motorhome at Florida RV super show next week
• 75 million gallons of paint is wasted each year. This startup turns them into brand new cans

  Weird and Wacky:

• NFT Group Buys Copy Of Dune For €2.66 Million, Believing It Gives Them Copyright